At this very moment, Nolan Estes is at his home in Austin filling out a questionnaire sent to the handful of finalists for the position of interim Dallas Independent School District superintendent. It was dispatched to him by DISD board president Lew Blackburn, who, Estes says, called him yesterday and…
When the NBA All-Star Game came to Dallas in February 2010 I got to hop in a Hummer limo. Driven by a big guy. Who had no use for road rules, or police barriers. As he ran over a bunch of traffic cones and headed toward a security barricade in front…
A fellow Dallas Independent School District parent, who recalls Tuesday’s sparring match between Carla Ranger and newly installed board president Lew Blackburn, suggests I take another look at the prolific Ranger’s blog. That’s because, moments ago, she posted yet another item about the interim superintendent debate — this one suggesting…
That’s how CBS News’s Don Teague recaps yesterday’s good news for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro, which, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, added more jobs between April 2010 and April 2011 than any other part of the country — 83,100, to be exact. Teague’s report, which aired this…
I know he and the Mavericks and even LeBron James are downplaying it, but I’m worried about Dirk Nowitzki’s finger entering tonight’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals here in Miami. Just because it’ll be different. “I’ll be fine,” Dirk says. “It’ll be okay.” But he loves to dribble left…
As Patrick noted Tuesday, the Dallas Independent School District’s board of trustees has narrowed down its short list of interim superintendents and hopes to name Michael Hinojosa’s temporary replacement by no later than Monday. And while newly installed board president Lew Blackburn won’t say who’s on that list of four…
I hope Mayor-For-Now Dwaine Caraway brought back pictures from his trip to Nigeria, where he’s been for the past eight days to attend the swearing-in of President Goodluck Jonathan and tend to some business. He’s back this evening, and in advance of his return sends word that, why, matter of…
10. Ate dinner last night at Prime Italian on South Beach. In the midst of ridiculous opulence in the form of $20 valet parking and $100,000 cars, it was relatively affordable. $125 for a steak and a couple drinks. Thumbs up. 9. They also offered prime Kobe steak for $30 an…
Hooray for Wendy: Thankfully, once in a while the political system churns out a Wendy Davis, the 48-year-old Senate freshman from Fort Worth who filibustered Governor Rick Perry’s legislative session to a grave Sunday night. How was this going to end otherwise? Perry has engineered the session as a vicious…
MIAMI—The Dallas Mavericks, America’s Team. Get used to it, because the Mavs are going to win their first-ever NBA championship this summer. And they’re going to do it as a beloved underdog, resolute in revenge and cheered by a country during their redemption. As much as Americans love sequels and…
The white paint on Felix Losada’s home in West Dallas is wearing away. His brittle wooden porch swing seems ready to snap at any moment. Old but neatly maintained, the house fades into a swath of similar homes, worn and seemingly attached to the ground by winding roots rather than…
Even casual campaign watchers will not be surprised to hear that Mike Rawlings has the support of all but a few current city council members, and plenty of former ones as well. Maybe to underscore the point, maybe to show off just a little, Rawlings invited them all to join…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have sent a heads-up about a particular wager over Mavs-Heat — no, not the governors’ cheapskate bet, but this what-the pitting Bishop Kevin Farrell of the Diocese of Dallas against Archbishop of Miami Thomas Wenski. Stone crabs and cigars, tortillas and pecan pie — now…
The state Legislature addressed Texas’s baby-mama drama this session when, on May 12, Governor Rick Perry signed a bill that immediately relieves men determined not to be the biological father of a child from being required to pay child support. The bill passed unanimously through both the House and Senate.Previously,…
We’re getting closer and closer to City Manager Mary Suhm’s proposed FY2011-’12 budget, which she plans to give to council members in a couple of weeks before they go on summer vacation. And, sure, she still needs to find $60 mil in cuts, give or take, before the thing’s balanced…
Yesterday morning, the state House Committee on Redistricting and the Senate Select Committee on Redistricting released what’s known as PlanC125 — or the Solomons-Seliger Congressional Proposal — which you can see here. Today, Houston Chronicle Washington bureau chief Rick Dunham, a 30-year veteran of the puzzling process, breaks it down…
Good timing: Later today, Leslie’s cover story for the paper version of Unfair Park dealing with the city’s involvement in efforts to thoughtfully (fingers crossed) redevelop West Dallas at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge will hit newsstands virtual and otherwise. So happens, according to the announcement that…
On Mother’s Day, the Mavericks’ reserves combined to score 86 points. In Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Mavs’ entire team managed only 84. Granted the Miami Heat are a bitch defensively. They are quick and fast and long and they did a fantastic job of chasing the Mavericks…
I’ve taken the almost-8-year-old who lives in my house to several of ‘cross-the-street neighbor Heritage Auction Galleries’ dinosaur auction previews, because, right, kids love dinosaurs. Which is why I expect at some point, between June 9 and 11, we’ll find ourselves once again wandering the fossils: It’s time for the…
The frustrating thing about Dirk Nowitzki’s injured finger? It happened on a play that wasn’t a foul. “I thought I stripped him clean,” Dirk said after last night’s 92-84 Game 1 loss to the Heat in the NBA Finals. “Then I kind of looked down and I couldn’t straighten my…
No doubt most of you aren’t all that concerned where your garbage gets dumped, so long as it’s picked up and hauled off on time. That said, the subject’s slowly but surely becoming a hot topic at City Hall, as City Manager Mary Suhm and Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix…
At this late date we’ve heard mayoral wannabes David Kunkle and Mike Rawlings address myriad issues — everything from DISD to LGBT. But, at last, a new wrinkle: Bike Friendly Oak Cliff has rounded up the runoff-ers for a question-and-answer session aimed at the hike-n-bike crowd wondering where they stand…
